Search Results: History / Expeditions from Chris Hartmann, Bookseller

New York: Hyperion. Softcover. 2003. 1st Paperback. 8vo 431pp . Fine with no DJ. B&W Photographs. Twenty-three-year-old Inuit Ada Blackjack signed on as a seamstress for a top-secret Arctic expedition. She and four men set out into the far North together in September 1921, but as winter set in, the expedition was beset by hardship, starvation, and tragedy .

New York: Meredith Press. Hardcover. 1969. 1st Edition. 8vo 303pp . Very Good in Very Good DJ. Neat ink name, DJ spine faded Eight true episodes from the history of the Pacific, including William Dampier, Georg Anton Scheffer, and Ned Kelly .

New York: David McKay Company. Hardcover. 1976. 2nd Printing. 8vo 257pp . Fine in Very Good DJ. Color Photographs DJ has some light damage at top of spine .

New York: St. Martin's Press. Hardcover. 1999. 1st Edition. 8vo 393pp . Fine in Fine DJ. B&W Illustrations .

New York: Rand McNally & Co.. Hardcover. 1958. 1st Edition. 8vo 384pp . Very Good in Very Good DJ. B&W Illustrations .

London: Batchworth Press. Hardcover. 1954. 1st Edition. 8vo 219pp . Very Good in Very Good DJ. B&W Illustrations Neat ink name, DJ lightly chipped The author went to the Amazon around the turn of the century as a trader in search of gold .

New York: Harper & Row. Hardcover. 1980. 1st Edition. 8vo 205pp . Fine in Very Good DJ. B&W Illustrations An unconventional history of discovery .

New York: Delacorte Press. Hardcover. 1966. 1st Edition. 8vo 269pp . Fine in Fine DJ. A volume in The Great Explorers Series .

New York: Henry Holt. Hardcover. 2006. 1st Edition. 8vo 366pp . Fine in Fine DJ. The Narvaez expedition. An account of four explorers who came to the New World on the heels of Cortes and their harrowing journey that took them across America 270 years before Lewis and Clark .

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Univ. Press. Hardcover. 1999. 1st Edition. 8vo 209pp . Fine in Fine DJ. B&W Photographs. Chronicles the adventures of Swedish engineer Salomon August Andree, who made the first failed attempt to reach the North Pole in a hydrogen balloon in 1897, and of American journalist Walter Wellman, who organized and led three unsuccessful air expeditions from 1907 t0 1909 .

London: British Museum Pub.. Hardcover. 1979. 8vo 249pp . Fine in Fine DJ. B&W Illustrations .

Shropshire, England: Anthony Nelson. Hardcover. 1984. New Edition. 8vo 127pp . Fine in Fine DJ. B&W Illustrations New edition of a book first published in 1969 .

New York: Viking Press. Hardcover. 1973. 1st Edition. 8vo 288pp . Very Good in Poor DJ. B&W and Color Illustrations. DJ edgeworn, repaired with tape .

New York: M. Evans & Co.. Hardcover. 1989. 1st Edition. 8vo 345pp . Fine in Fine DJ. B&W Illustrations .

London: Little, Brown and Company. Hardcover. 1997. 1st Edition. Large 8vo 392pp . Fine in Fine DJ. B&W Illustrations Translated and edited by David Selbourne Before Marco Polo, a Jewish-Italian merchant embarked on a perilous voyage to the East, his destination a Chinese metropolis called The City of Light .

New York: Orion Books. Hardcover. 1991. 1st Edition. 8vo 273pp . Fine in Fine DJ.

New York: Macmillan. Hardcover. 1967. 4to 207pp . Fine in Good+ DJ with Slipcase. B&W and Color Illustrations. Bright red imitation leather. Slipcase lightly soiled .

New York: Viking. Hardcover. 2011. 1st Edition. 8vo 423pp . Fine in Fine DJ. B&W and Color Illustrations .

New York: Oxford Univ. Press. Hardcover. 1991. 1st Edition. 8vo 218pp . Fine in Very Good DJ. B&W Illustrations Biography of explorer Christopher Columbus .

Toronto: Peter Martin Assoc.. Hardcover. 1975. 1st Edition. 8vo 187pp . Very Good in Good DJ. B&W Illustrations DJ has large repaired closed tear and creasing on rear Printed on a cheap, acidic paper that is starting to brown .